Band attachment packaging device



Sept. 5, 1967 R. F. BECKER BAND ATTACHMENT PACKAGING DEVICE Filed Feb. 16, 1965 :E'IlE-ia- R IIE- 2 INVENTOR RAYMOND FBECKER @El @mi ATTORNEYS United States Patent G BAND ATTACIMVIENT PACKAGING DEVICE Raymond F. Becker, 134 S. Butte St., Willows, Calif. 95988 Filed Feb. 16, 1965, Ser. No. 432,958 Claims. (Cl. 206-79) This invention relates to a packaging combination for band attachments.

Indicia bearing band attachments employed in the past include a main body having extending therefrom a pair of transverse foldable legs. The legs are formed of flexible material so that they may be wrapped around a band, such as, for example, the band of a wrist watch. Such attachment structures are useful for carrying indicia, such as a calendar for example, or other data as may be required. Quite frequently, such attachments are mailed to users in displays that might well carry explanatory or advertising indicia.

The present invention concerns itself with a packaging mount for carrying such band attachments in an unfolded condition within the card so that the card and the attachment lie on a substantially identical plane and form only one planar surface which can be conveniently enclosed in a conventional envelope for mailing.

One of the principal advantages of this invention lies in the fact that the indicia surface of the attachment is displaced through a window opening in its carrying card' so that the indicia on the panel of the attachment can be readily observed on one face of the card, while the attachment is carried by the card. The aforesaid feature and advantage has particular application for use in conjunction with promotional and explanatory data which can be printed on the face of the card.

As a further advantage of this invention there is provided on the opposite side of the card protrusions of the legs of the attachment which are biased against the card to hold the attachment in xed relation to the card. The legs also provide a rectangular pattern which can be used in addition to supplementary printing to form predetermined designs useful in either explanatory or promotional indicia printed on the card.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide a card having two parallel slits spaced apart a distance substantially equal to the width of the indicia bearing surface of the band attachment, and having a length substantially equal to the length of the indicia bearing surface of the band attachment so that the band attachment can be carried within the slits and therein stand in more or less fixed relationship with respect to the card, and when in-` stalled therein, provide the indicia bearing surface of the band attachment in exposed relationship between the two slits.

Another object of this invention is to provide a card for carrying such band attachments in an unfolded condition within the card, wherein the flexible legs extending from the main body of the band attachment are biased against the card by slightly deforming or bending the legs in the direction of the card, whereby the band attachment is ixedly held in the desired position within the card while retaining a substantially planar surface on each side of the card.

A further object of this invention is to provide a card for mounting the band attachment wherein means formed in the card, including portions of the card, hold the band attachment in substantially fixed position relative to the card providing a window that exposes the indicia bearing surface of the band attachment.

These and other objects of the present invention will become apparent upon reading the following detailed specification in conjunction with the drawings wherein:

3,339,729 Patented Sept. 5, 1967 ICC FIG. 1 is a plan view of a band attachment packaging device embodying the invention;

FIG. 2 is a bottom view of the packaging device illustrated in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a side view of the band attachment packaging device shown in FIG. l;

FIG. 4 is a top view of the band attachment shown in FIG. 1, mounted in a band; and

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along section line 5-5 shown in FIG. 4.

Reference is now made to FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings wherein a band attachment packaging device embodying the invention is illustrated. A card 10, having a pair of slits 12 formed thereon, is employed for mounting a band attachment 14. As shown in FIG. 1, for example, the band attachment 14 comprises a main body 16 and two pairs of legs 18 and 19 integrally formed with the body 16 and outwardly extending therefrom. The band attachment may be made of any suitable material, such as metallic or plastic materials for example, which are flexible and which include a certain amount of resiliency.

As previously described, the present invention relates to an indicia-bearing band attachment packaging device. Such indi-cia is printed on the face or surface that constitutes the main body 14. As shown in FIG. 1, the outline of the surface of the main body 16 corresponds to the surface of the card confined by the pair of slits 12. To that effect, the pair of slits 12 are positioned in parallel in the card 10 at a distance a, which corresponds to the width of the main body 16. In addition, the length a predetermined width that permits easy folding when attached to a band as will be explained later. The length of each of the legs 18 and 19 is determined by the maximum width of the band for which the band attachment 14 is intended.

As illustrated in FIGS. 1-3, the band attachment 14 is mounted on the card 10 by inserting the pairs of legs 18 and 19 through the slits 12 in a -manner such that the indicia bearing surface 16 is exposed on the top side of the card 10, while the two pairs of legs 18 and 19 project on the bottom side of the card 10. In this manner the portion of the card 10 conned by the slits 12, and which corresponds to the main body 16 of the lband attachment 14, cooperates with the top surface of the card 10 and the legs 18 and 19 to hol-d the band I attachment 14 in substantially xed position relative to the card 10. To this effect these cooperating portions exert sufficient pressure on one another to hold the band attachment 14 in the desired position.

The legs 18 and 19, which as described above are made of resilient, flexible material present a relatively rigid structure to the card 10, thus permitting the pressure exerted by the portions of the card 10 on the band attachment to hold the attachment 14 in its desired position. In order to insure the permanency of the position of the attachment 14, the legs 18 and 19 may be slightly deformed or biased against the card 10 as shown in FIG. 3, to exert pressure on the card 10. Biasing the legs in such a manner, however, does not materially aifect the flatness of the surface presented by the structure, while providing a spring like biasing to the structure that prevents sliding of the attachment through the slits 12.

As shown in FIG. 2, for example, one of the features of the invention consists in the utilization of the two pairs of legs 18 and 19 for mounting and for display purposes. As shown in FIG. 2, the pairs of legs 18 and 19 in combination with the portion 17 bounded by the slits 12 on the bottom side of card 10, may be ernployed to represent a letter H which may form an integral part of additional advertising or explanatory indi-cia printed on the bottom side of the card 10. Similarly as shown in FIG. 1, the indicia bearing surface 16 of the band attachment 14, exposed on the top side of the card 10, may Ibe utilized as part of the advertising or promotional indicia printed on the card 10.

FIG. 3, which is a side View of the structure shown in FIG. 1, illustrates the structural cooperation of the different portions of the card and the band attachment 14. As illustrated therein, by projecting the legs 18 and 19 through the slits 12, pressure is applied to the band attachment 14 from the card 10 to legs 18 and 19 and to the main body 16 from the portion 17 of the card 10.

As shown in FIG. 3, the legs 18 and 19 are slightly `deformed to bias the structure against the card 10. The curvature of the legs 18 and 19 as illustrated is greatly exaggerated for purposes of clarity. In actual practice only a slight deformation is sufficient to provide a springlike action to the structure. In this manner the face 16 of the attachment 14 is pressed against the card 10 fitting within the slits 12, while the legs 18 and 19 press against the portion of the card 10 confined by the slits 12.

It should be noted that the thicknesses of the card 10 and the yband attachment 14 are illustrated in an enlarged form for reasons of clarity and that in their actual size the surfaces presented by the card 10 on either side are su-bstantially planar. This feature permits enclosing the band attachment packaging structure in conventional envelopes, which ymay be of considerable importance shown in FIGS. 1-3, when the band attachments are employed for advertising and promotion purposes.

FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate the manner in which the band attachment 14 may be used in combination with a band. To this effect attachment 14 may be mounted on a band 20, which may be a wrist watch band for example. The band attachment 14 may have chronological indicia such as a calendar printed on its main body 16 and it may be worn in combination with a watch for obvious purposes.

The band attachment 14 is mounted on the band 20 by placing the attachment 14 on the external side of the band, and folding the legs 18 and 19 to wrap around the band 20. After using the indicia bearing attachment 1-4 in the manner illustrated in FIGS. 4 and 5, the legs 18 and 19 may be straightened out and the attachment 14 may be again positioned in the packaging device as illustrated in FIGS. 1 3.

`What is claimed is:

1. In combination: first and second elements each having substantially planar indicia bearing surfaces; legs and body integrally formed by said first element, said second element having a pair of apertures spaced opposite a distance equal to the width of the body of sai-d first element; the body being on one side of said second element and the legs extending through said slits to the opposite side of said second element; said legs lbent toward the second element to cause pressure on the second element to hold said two elements in substantially fixed position.

L2. A band attachment packaging device comprising in combination: mounting means having a pair of substantially planar faces and a pair of substantially parallel slits formed therein; and a band attachment having a lmain ybody with a plurality of legs outwardly extending therefrom; said pair of slits being separated from each other "by a distance which is substantially equal to the width of said attachments main `body and having a length substantially equal to the length of the main body; said band attachment being mounted on said mounting means through said pair of slits exposing said main body on one of said pair of faces while said plurality of legs is exposed on the other one of said pair of faces said plurality of legs extending through said pair of slits in spring-biased relation against said other one of said pair of faces to provide means for holding said band attachment in a substantially fixed position relative to said mounting means.

3. A band attachment packaging device as defined in claim 2 wherein said main body has indicia formed on a surface thereof which is exposed on said one of said pair of faces.

4. A band attachment packaging device as defined in claim Z'wherein said band attachment is made of flexible,

resilient material.

5. A band attachment packaging structure, for conveying a band attachment having an indicia `bearing planar surface and a plurality of legs extending laterally therefrom; a card having a pair of substantially parallel slitted areas formed therein, said pair of slitted areas being positioned a distance from each other corresponding to the lmaximum width of said indicia bearing surface, and having length which corresponds to the length of the indicia bearing surface; said legs mounted through said slitted areas to expose said indicia bearing surface on one face of said card and said legs on the other side of said card said plurality of legs formed of resilient material and deformed in a curved configuration with the ends of the legs biased against said card to hold the band attachment in a substantially fixed position relative to said card.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,073,828 9/ 1913 Wallin 40-2 1,695,495 12/1928 Ikofsky et al. 2123-186 2,555,983l 6./1951 Matthiesen 229-77 DHER-ON E. CONDON, Primary Examiner. WILLIAM T. DIXSON, IR., Examiner. 

1. IN COMBINATION: FIRST AND SECOND ELEMENTS EACH HAVING SUBSTANTIALLY PLANAR INDICIA BEARING SURFACES; LEGS AND BODY INTEGRALLY FORMED BY SAID FIRST ELEMENT, SAID SECOND ELEMENT HAVING A PAIR OF APERTURES SPACED OPPOSITE A DISTANCE EQUAL TO THE WIDTH OF THE BODY OF SAID FIRST ELEMENT; THE BODY BEING ON ONE SIDE OF SAID SECOND ELEMENT AND THE LEGS EXTENDING THROUGH SAID SLITS TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE SECOND ELEMENT; SAID LEGS BENT TOWARD THE SECOND ELEMENT TO CAUSE PRESSURE ON THE SECOND ELEMENT TO HOLD SAID TWO ELEMENTS IN SUBSTANTIALLY FIXED POSITION. 